You Collection, Lower Volume
Radical: Carriage (chē)
Fu; Kangxi strokes: 16; Page 1246, Entry 25
Broad Rhymes (Guangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Collection (Yunhui), and Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced fu.
Explanation of Graphs (Shuowen): Bindings under a carriage.
Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): The fu-tu (crouching rabbit component) of a carriage.
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Bindings for a carriage axle.
Explication of Names (Shiming): The carriage fu-tu is also called fu. Fu means to crouch, as it crouches above the axle.
Book of Changes (Yijing): The carriage loses its bindings.
Also: Strong and firm on the bindings of the great carriage.
Also Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced fu. Same meaning.
Textual Research: Explication of Names (Shiming) states: Fu means to crouch. Calling it a fu-tu (crouching rabbit) refers to its crouching above the axle. We have corrected the original text under Explication of Names to read: The carriage fu-tu is also called fu. Fu means to crouch, as it crouches above the axle.